Hi everyone...
I am going to be a math/physics teacher. Before starting the job I had some time to kill so I did an internship at a big company that produces and develops propellors etc for ships. I was part of the development team and wrote a programm that modified .case files.

Next week I will do some stuff about meshes with my students, so I thought about the idea of introducing them to paraview. The problem is that I do not have a lot of sample files and most of them are copyrighted by the company I was working for.

Does anyone know where to find good looking sample files for paraview (no matter if ensight (gold), starcd, stl ...).

Searching the web did not result in any good results, except for a cube I found on a physics site.

You can download a LiveDVD from http://www.caelinux.com/, then, boot up your computer from the LiveDVD. Run some tutorials from OpenFOAM. Then, type "foamToVTK" to convert the case/results to vtk format. After that, you can run paraview from the LiveDVD if you like, or copy them to a flash drive.